More images of the Huawei Ascend W1 emerge, reminds us of another Windows Phone

If people thought that HTC took some liberties with design and colors with the 8X and 8S from Nokia, wait until you see these prototype images of the Huawei Ascend W1.

We first saw the bezel part leak last night and now full images of the device have appeared on the same social network. And maybe it’s because of that cyan color or the 2D curved glass, but the device looks quite sharp.

We now also have specs to go along with the images:

4.0 screen WVGA

1.2 GHz cpu + 512MB RAM

5MP rear camera 3MP front (?)

2000 mAh battery

A variety of color

Not a bad mid-range device by the sound of it. It will of course be curious to see of this device ever lands in the US, something for which we’re not optimistic. But for the rest of the world, you may have a shot.

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More images of the Huawei Ascend W1 emerge, reminds us of another Windows Phone

Well all I got to say is that I can't decide which phone to get, all of these look so good and the specs are amazing. I hope WP8 fly's off the shelf's this time around. Finally looks like WP is hitting the market hard this year.

2000 mAh battery for a 4.0" phone is pretty massive! That thing (if true) must run for atleast two days on a charge. I'd like to see manufacturers start to add in more battery life into their phones, in the same vein as the Razr Maxx.

That color choice is quite the burn though, as well as the familiar design. Looks like they took the liberty off adding in their favorite designs into a single phone.

I think everyone should look at the argument of OEMs stealing Nokias color schemes from a different perspective. It wouldnt be too far fetched of an idea to believe that Microsoft has been encouraging the OEMs to include these colorful options on their devices to compliment windows phone 7/8's array of themed tiles. The colors should be a staple of all windows phones. And also, hasnt everyone been demanding for square shaped devices since the onset of windows phone? Why? Because again, it compliments the windows phone ui. Samsung pulled it off with the omnia's and dell with its venue, I think its about time everyone jumps on the bangwagon because round devices have a tendency of clashing with the square tiles.

I would never buy Huawei products. Would not support this company who is known for reverse engineering and copy-cat.
Ask Cisco employees or other tech companies. They will tell you what Huawei has done.

Lol! But isn't this SOP for KIRF oems? Looks like they even 'lifted' elements of the camera housing from the HTC One X.

These designs will 'dilute' the uniqueness of the Lumia, in my opinion, and I'm not talking about the color. If Nokia did decide to gently talk to Huawei about using a different design, I wouldn't begrudge them.

Funny why Nokia should take some cues if they had already these kind of designs for their N9/L800/L900?
I really won't consider 810/820/822 as a mid range phone because specwise it's almost the same as 920, it just lacks other features and innovation like the supersensitive screen and OIS pureview cam.
If you would compare this one to the HTC 8X the only notable difference is the screen resolution but 820 packs with expandable memory whilst 8x do not.

Just out of curiosity. How many of you guys﻿ think Apple is the most innovative company. Yep at least 75% of you do. Apple brainwash you with there ads an oh. thinner, faster, lighter. hahaha. Apple pays Nokia more than $500 million a year for using there patents and that's nearing to $750 million a year. No company in the world receives so much from patents. Nokia has one of biggest patent portfolios. They are the most innovative. Just not recognized.----- this was the comment

Correction. MS receives $12 to $15 for every android device sold. Per Google they activate 1.3 m per day so that's $18m or so per day from Android activations. MS and NOK have 2 of the largest portfolios in the world,but MS is tops here.

yes apple and many other companies pay nokia for several patents ... let me give you an example : when you type on a virtual keyboard on your phone and the keyboard buttons on which you tap pops out .... well nokia has a patent for that and every company pays nokia for this

You use Nokia patents on every gadget you ever use. Every cell phone manufacturer licenses Nokia patents.
Nokia owns essential WiFi patents, it own patent for cheramic antenna and it owns 60% of all GSM patents out there, over 50% of all LTE patents. Last year alone it it made

Nokia is by far the industries largest patent holder. That's kind of a natural for a company that was once Europea's largest company and spend over 10 years 4 billion euros yearly on R&D. Also the inventor of GSM standard, txt messages, WAP and thousands of other things.

Its just a material. Anyone can use it.. So nothing great about who first implemented polycarbonate.. But the design is very important.. So I feel Nokia's design and build quality has set the standard for devices made from the same material.